Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-20
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
The State Legislature.

The State Legislature.
In the Senate on the 10th large number OF
bills were introduced, among them the follow
ing: Providing for the prohibition of the sale
and manufacture of all intoxicating liquors. by
a vote in counties: to prohibit the employment
of minors under fourteen years of age in mines,
mills. factories and in running OF elevators;
prohibiting telephone companies from charging
more than fifty dollars rental per year for use
OF instruments; to repeal the law prohibiting
the manufacture Of oleomargarine substances,
and regulate the manufacture of the same in
accordance with the United States laws relat-
ing to oleomargarine, etc. ;; to repeal the act of
1885 exempting theatrical and minstrel per-
formances from licenses in cities of the
third and fourth classes; to increase
the penalties for violation of the dram
shop Inv so as to make it cost as
much to violate the law as it does to procure
license TO sell liquor; to leave it optional with
the jury in capital cases to sentence party con-
victed to fifty years in the penitentiary; making
trespass upon public school property INSIDE
meanor; changing the law relating to the cleo
ton of school directors so as TO have certain
number of old directors ON the board all
the time; also. providing commits
sion to form a criminal code for the State, such
commission to consist of Chas. p. Johnson, of
ST. Louis; d. H. Mcintyre. of Jefferson City,
and Henry F. Kelly, of Andrew County.........In
the House, sixty-three bills were introduced,
covering almost every possible phase of legis-
1atiou. The reports Of State Treasurer
Selbert and of w. G. Coleman, Superintendent
of Public Schools, were submitted and ordered
printed.
IN the Senate on the 18th Senator Moran OF
St. Joseph, introduced a resolution declaring in
favor of the rights of the individual and against
enlarging the domain of governmental power.
After discussion it was agreed to print 100
copies of the resolution for the Information of
the Senate. Senator Harmon sent in railroad
ien Of of q mi 10
troduced in the last Legislature. 1t provides
that the Railroad Commissioners shall fix d
schedule of freight and passenger rates which
shall be prirna facie evidence IN court of their
own fairness The passenger rate snail not
exceed three cents per mile Pooling is pro-
hibited, and the Railroad Commissioners
authorized to enforce the pro-
visions of the bill. The penalty clause of the
bill fixes fine of 81 900 for each transgresson
of the law. Senator McGinnis offered an
amendment to the submission resolution intro
duced last week, providing that the State shall
compensate all persons engaged in the liquor
traffic for losses which they may sustain by the
passage of prohibition law. In the House
among the bills introduced were the following:
To establish State normal school; prohibit
ing the marriage of first cousins; providing for
the appropriation of 100000 for the location
and erection of a branch penitentiary at Mo
berry.
In the Senate the 18th, several submis-
"A
resolution was offered declaring the right of
petition Of the people for redress of wrongs,
etc. inalienable, and a refusal to receive and act
upon such is incompatible with a republican
form of government and worthy only of des
potlSm. A number of bills were introduced,
among them the following: Providing for the
organization of the militia and appropriating
100000 two local-option bills; to prohibit drug
gsts selling liquor by the gallon: providing for
convention to revise the Constitution OF the
State: amending the statute of frauds. The
School-Boolz bill passed by the Senate at the
last session was reintroduced. In the House a
number of petitions for and against submission
We're introduced and petition against mill
tia appropriation. Among the bills introduced
We're the following: To authorize vote of the
people upon the question of a convention to re-
wise the State Constitution: to locate the
branch penitentiary at Piedmont; to repeal
the law requiring physicians to register births
and deaths: to establish soldiers and sailors
home, and appropriating S101,0Do therefor; to
relieve registered druggists from serving on
juries: to repeal the gallon law: to repeal the
oleomargarine law: to enact a new marriage
law. and give the husband an equal interest iii
his wife's property.
IN the Senate on the 18th resolution was
adopted providing that committee be appoint
ed by the president to confer with the chair
man of each committee not provided with
clerk to determine whether or not his commit
tee needs a clerk. a large number of bills were
introduced, and another batch OF SUBMISSION
petitions. $3.50. In the House the main business
of the day was the introduction of bills, among
which were the following: To prohibit grant
ing of divorces except for adultery; to exempt
superintendent of pOOr-farmS and registered
druggists from jury service: to prevent unjust
discrimination and eXtOrtion in railroad rates;
to amend the Insane Asylum act by creating an
incurably insane department: to prevent the
spread of infectious diseases among swine: to
repeal the act creating the State Board Of
Health to amend the marriage law to provide
for refunding the State debt, etc.
IN the Senate on the 18th number of sub
mission petitions were presented. \ resolution
to appoint IL committee to inquire into the
suits of prohbitory legislation compared
with high license. after discussion, was tabled.
Several bills were introduced, among them one
to limit the pay of members of the Legislature
to mileage in travelling to and from the capital
and the per diem to time actually spent in ses-
sion of the General Assembly, and one to com
pei parents. guardians or others having charge
OF minor children between the ages of eight
end fourteen years to send them to school six
teen weeks in the year. unless excused
by the Board of Directors for certain
reasons specified in the bill. In the House
Speaker Alexander announced the standing
committees. A resolution for the appointment
of Il committee to inquire into the working of
prohibition in other States was tabled. A large
number of submission petitions&were presented.
Two protests against appropriation for the
militia were presented from Jackson and
buchanan counties. The committee appointed
by the Governor to settle with the State Auditor
and State Treasurer presented their report.
Among the bills introduced was one to appro-
pirate S2000O0 to improve the Capitol building,
and one to allow persons convicted of murder
to be imprisoned for life at the option of the
jury: also. to abolish the office of county at
torney and establish the office of circuit attor-
ney